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Work Shops
I organized and hosted a series of collaborative workshops inside my installation Room Set ranging from open conversations, to listening parties, to more specialized projects. These workshops facilitated an exploration of meaning-making as it relates to domestic design, objects, and architecture.
Below I have highlighted two of these workshops: Show & Tell and Memory Complex
Show & Tell
Hosted in collaboration with Abbas A Malakar, Show & Tell invited participants to bring an object of personal significance to them and share the story of how they got it and why it's important to them.
The objects ranged from childhood stuffed animals to triple A batteries, and the stories were personal, intimate, and tender.
"You have something in your room that no one else will ever relate to. Whatever story it has can be heard and understood, but never truly felt. It belongs to you not only physically but is bound to you—not to sound trivial—spiritually. It is valuable beyond an economic denomination. It is important beyond justifiable explanations. You know it. You feel it. It is a vessel for something that originated from deep within you, in your memories, in your lived experiences, through your actions with it or around it. It is an extension of you. Your identity is reflected in it. You have an inalienable possession that others may hold but will never own in its entirety."
—Abbas A Malakar
Memory Complex
Memory Complex is an intimate drawing workshop hosted by Lily Hyon in which participants are asked to draw a space of personal history entirely from memory. Participants then shared the story of what this space means to them and how it informs them as a person.
A “complex” refers to an architectural configuration or a psychological syndrome. Drawing on precedent from Mike Kelley’s Educational Complex (1995), a reconstruction of Kelley’s past in the form of an architectural model, the aim of this workshop is to share and explore the meaning embedded in forgotten spaces of the public and private divide.
